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“RTTA” (as they say)… or “TIA” if that’s your thing.

My boss came to a realization last night. He was taking a class—some sort of class that requires you to think about your life and your philosophy when it comes to business. He seems to take a lot of these classes, but for the first tim, I think this one class is telling him something the others aren’t:

You don’t have to overwork yourself to death to be successful.

At our meeting this morning, he shared his discovery with us. He said that he realized that when he was young, he created the idea that he was stupid, or less intelligent that other people doing the same thing, so he worked harder. At least he had that—he could work harder than anyone in his classes when he was younger. This carried on into later in his life, and for a long time it paid off. He saved more than one organization from complete failure and turned them into something excellent. But this model of behavior isn’t working for him anymore. He works harder and harder, takes on more and more responsibility, more programs, and nothing gets done. He’s upset at his body for having to sleep because there’s more things he could be doing.

We talked about how it’s easy to get frustrated with our jobs, because the way we work causes it to be a major part of our lives, affecting everything we do. When personal responsibilities are neglected, we resent our jobs.

It was an interesting discussion, and I never thought I’d hear him say some of those things.

The more I hear about last week’s tragedy in NYC, the more I think that there is a significant portion of “important people” who knew something really bad, undoubtedly involving American Airlines and United Airlines, was going to happen before it did.

I didn’t get that house in Waldwick that I was hoping for. Also, I had the possibility of living with a friend, but she’s probably going with a one-bedroom in Pennsylvania now. Since I’ll be working at a show in Pennsylvania today, tomorrow will be my “re-organizing, re-evaluating and otherwise thinking about my life” day.

In order to put myself at ease, I’ve come up with a project. This is an audience participation project, so it is important that you help me out. I am going to make a compact disc compilation to give tribute to those who have been hurt in the past few days. What I need from you are suggestions of songs to include on this CD. I’ll sell these CD’s for $10.11 each — $9.11 to give to a charity fund helping survivors from the catastrophe and $1.00 to cover shipping. If I’m able to sell 50 CD’s, I will send a free CD to everyone who suggested a song that I ended up using. Please use the comments below for song suggestions.

On the radio this morning, they were accepting callers who wanted to go into the City to volunteer. The DJs were telling many people that they have an incredible amount of volunteers already, and that it might be better to use your talents to help in other ways. That is how I came up with this idea. Plus, I’ve been kind of upset over this whole turn of events, and I think this will help me get over it. Please write in with your suggestions. If you want to buy a CD, I’ll have information on that soon.

Also, those of you who have weblogs etc., feel free to link this entry in order to get more people involved. Thanks.

My father works a block away………

I finally have some photographs online from Darren‘s birthday extravaganza last month.

I have decided that there really are things I have to say, whether interesting to others or not. So I have come back. In the mean time, I have been slowly working on another redesign for the site… since I’ve been pretty busy lately, it’s still a work very much in progress.

The other day I got a note from the DMV saying that my car insurance has been cancelled and they will suspend my license if it is not resolved soon. So I called the insurance company to find out what the deal was. Apparently they dropped me as far back as March without so much of a word to me. Of course they said I was informed, but I received no notification. So, since State Farm, like just about every other auto insurer, is pulling out of New Jersey, I have to look elsewhere for insurance.

Apparenly I have an ungodly amount of points on my license. Apparently it’s going to cost me more than $3000 a year for car insurance. I found the best option through AAA but I have to make a down payment on Monday. The check I have to write is more than what I currently have in my bank account.

This pretty much fills you in on where I am in my life right now. Also… Still no new place to live. I drove to a candidate apartment today and it was just a weird experience all around. I’m still have hopes for that house in Waldwick.

How is it that I manage to keep myself so busy? I think I might just disappear this weekend. Maybe go hiking in upstate New York. It’s that time of year in which it’s good to do some self-reflection and to re-establish personal goals (objectives?)… or something like that. Or maybe just get some fresh non-New Jersey air.

Yesterday was Darren‘s twenty-fifth birthday. To celebrate we (a Large Group of People) played Laser Tag, which is fast becoming a birthday staple. We also used the occasion to celebrate Becky Ray’s impending Monday birthday. Unfortunately unlike last time, there were no little kids in the laser tag arena to shoot. The red team (of which I was a member) beat the green team three out of five games, even though Alissa‘s gun didn’t work. She threatened to write them a letter.

Today I saw As You Like It as interpreted in the Wild West by the Princeton Repertory Shakespeare Festival. They performed in the middle of Palmer Square, which was an interesting location. They always seem to come up with strange ways of performing Shakespeare. Last year, they did A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in some strange time or location as well.